Representative English Prose and Prose Writers--Notices Continued. Prof. T. W. Bancroft, of Brown University, in "Modern Language Notes" says: "We conceive the leading excellences of the work to be the comprehensive plan which enables the author to have a firm hold upon the whole discussion; thoroughly assimilated material; an absence of all attempts to parade his learning, and a genuine sympathy with his subject. This attempt has, therefore, resulted in the production of a work which should speedily find its way into higher seminaries and colleges, wherever the need is felt of a comprehensive study of English prose authors." From President Carter, of Williams College: "I am pleased with the plan of the book, and the execution seems to me to be thorough and accurate, and to show literary perception and sympathy to a marked degree." 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It is a helpful and stimulating book either for the class-room or for the study." Prof. J. M. Garnett, University of Virginia: "I regard it as a careful piece of work, and think it will prove very useful as a text-book of English prose writers. I think that Prof. Hunt has well criticised the writers whom he discusses, and that his analysis of the style of each cannot fail to be very useful to students." President Welling, of Columbian University, Washington: "So far as I have been able to examine the work, it seems to me that he has been equally happy in his selection of representative names and in defining the principles according to which the writers of English prose may be variously classified. In this way the whole body of English prose literature is passed under review in its most logical and expressive aspects. 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